Re: mathematical function parser/compiler

Jens Dreger wrote:
> I'm looking for a c/c++ function, that takes some string like
> f(x)=1/(1+x^2)
> at runtime (!) and returns a function that evaluates this
> expression when called within the program. This sounds like a
> common problem, so I assume it has already been solved, but I
> couldn't find anything like that.


You might try calling a J interpreter DLL if you're in windoze (not sure
how their linux version works). J is an offshoot of APL
that has some very nice array handling facilities in it.
In J, you could write something along the lines of:
      f=. 1 % 1+ y. ^2 NB. y. is the argument


then do:
      f 10 20 40...
and execute foo on a whole array (not necessarily just a vector)
at once.


Look at http://www.jsoftware.com


Bob
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